Top tips for fixed gear crit racers
I love anything fast, technical and intense and fixed gear crits are all of these and more. These relatively niche races are insanely fun races and essentially, the entire reason I became hooked on training and racing. Fast paced and […]
Splat! Red Hook Crit Milan 18
It was meant to be the glorious end to the year’s racing. Training for the race had been a constant throughout the summer. I was hoping for a satisfying finish to a season, something to be proud of and I’d […]
Summer In Brief
The last few months have been really busy for me as though I’m not a professional cyclist in the traditional sense, I do make a living out of cycling through writing, consultancy, digital marketing and brand partnerships and the summer […]
Minet Crit – Homegrown fixed gear racing
Around 12 noon on August 4th, the family and I rolled in to Hillingdon with our track bikes, rollers, push chair, cameras, mic, picnic, skinsuits, teddy bear and dummy. Though both Dave and I are keen racers, up […]
My Custom Wyndymilla Fixed Crit Race Bike
I’m really pleased to be racing fixed gear crits this year for a brand new team, Wyndymilla Hype Energy. Initially, I was unable to join a team and always raced solo as I’m sponsored by ASSOS (year round) and was […]
My (Short Lived) Custom Carbon Track Bike
They say that bad luck comes in threes but I seem to be racking up the mishaps and misfortune at the moment. After a frankly quite horrible day that involved nearly breaking down on the way to Gatwick in a […]
Training Update: Fun vs Gains
Afternoon all! I’ve finally managed to find time to sit down for a minute with a cuppa and write a blogpost, something I’ve been meaning to do all week. Life is really hectic right now, despite this normally being the […]
Fixed 411 Video Series
Sometimes I feel like I’m juggling so much stuff but I just can’t help doing more and more. Not content with running this blog, consulting for brands, producing content for campaigns, writing for several websites and magazines and working as […]
The best rides of 2017
Like many cyclists, the end of the road racing season in October is when I start looking back at what I’ve achieved and figuring out where I want to be in the future. It’s a time to reflect on […]
Hinterlands: A fixed gear cycling film
Way back at the beginning of summer, Dave and I got up at 4am to head over to Dartmoor and meet local filmmakers Callum Earnshaw and Amanda Bluglass. Getting up early is really not my bag at all – seeing […]
Crit racing reignited my fixed gear love affair
It all happened on that fateful day, when my borrowed road bike was stripped of parts. As I stood outside my Dalston flat in the weak autumn sunshine gazing at the destruction some lowlifes had wreaked, I realised something had […]
24 Velodrome Race | Cyclone 24
With the final race of the Red Hook Crit series in the bag and the accumulated fatigue from a long season of racing making me feel somewhat lethargic and unmotivated, I decided to take a couple of weeks off training […]
Red Hook Crit Milan – The season finale
This weekend saw the Red Hook Crit season finale take place in Milan, the last of four international fixed gear races that I’ve geared much of my training around in 2017. Though Red Hook Crit London in 2015 was the […]
Red Hook Crit Barcelona 2017
“As any fixed gear critter which is the best race of the season and with ne’er a split second pause they’ll give you one answer – Red Hook Crit Barcelona. Though there are several obvious reasons why, namely the beach, […]
Red Hook Crit London 2017 – The wet one
Whereas Red Hook Crit London 2016 will forever be known as ‘the one that Dani King entered’ this year will be legendary for another reason – the atrocious weather. As it happened Dani King MBE (Olympic Gold medalist and team Wiggle […]
Video: Fixed 42 Fixed Gear World Championships
Sorry for the tardiness in getting this up here but somehow this video slipped through the net and I never got around to posting it on Bikes n’ Stuff. This summer has been as hectic as always so I’ve […]
Fixed Gear Crit season is here – But what is a fixed crit?
I’ve realised recently that I often harp on about fixed gear crits, them being my favourite races and all but that actually, not everyone actually know what the hell I’m talking about. And why would they? If you’re just not […]
Video: Ask Me Anything
Morning! A few months back (I know, I should maybe have done this a little quicker!) I asked my Instagram and Facebook followers to give me questions to answer for my new video and it seems that you guys are […]
Interview: Switching Jobs, Dieting & Panic Attacks
Bikeradar.com recently published an in-depth feature looking into my somewhat untraditional career path, so if you’re interested in finding out how I ended up living in Devon, why I got pissed off with modelling and how I tried and failed […]
Video: The Tour Series, Fixed Days and Waterkant Krit
I’ve just returned from an extremely fun few days of travelling and racing. Last Thursday Dave and I set off from our home in Devon, first travelling up to Stoke-on-Trent where I raced the second round of The Tour Series […]